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Lukashenko was forced by the removal of Russian oil-price subsidies in 2009 to beg, borrow, or steal enough funds to keep Belarus’s economy from collapsing.
They would have free use of their own allocations, but the IFIs would supervise how the borrowed allocations are used to ensure that the borrowed funds are well spent.
But these funds proved insufficient, prompting the European Central Bank to step in with unlimited guarantees for Southern Europe’s creditors, all at the expense of eurozone taxpayers.
Consider, for example, regulations regarding money market funds, which, according to the FSB, only a few countries have developed since 2008.
Money market funds are an alternative to banks for storing one’s money, offering somewhat higher interest rates, but without the insurance that protects bank deposits in many countries.
And, like bank deposits, the funds are potentially subject to a run if a large number of people try to withdraw their money at the same time.
As panic rose among the public, the federal government, fearing a major run on other money market funds, guaranteed all such funds for one year, starting September 19, 2008.
It took almost six years after the crisis for the US Securities and Exchange Commission to reduce money market funds’ vulnerability, by requiring in 2014 a “floating NAV” (net asset value), which means that prime money market funds no longer promise to pay out a dollar for a dollar’s nominal value.
This does not insure the funds’ investors against losses.
Regulators could have imposed a floating NAV decades ago; they didn’t because they didn’t foresee a narrative that would make money market funds unstable.
Regulators must counter the risks implied by structures that are intrinsically destabilizing, as the money market funds were.
Indeed, that is why the latest deal with Greece, which entails even more bailout funds, could work, as long as the country is accorded the debt reprofiling that it needs to reverse the decline of its GDP, reduces its primary surpluses, and pursues balance-sheet-strengthening reforms.
The national government provides funds for cooks and helpers, and has devised guidelines for the program’s implementation, but schools are under the jurisdiction of state governments, some of which are more capable than others of maintaining the standards required to provide a reliable service.
A small and gradually rising carbon tax that funds a feed-in tariff system could win political support in the US.
It is no coincidence that from 2010 to 2014, the largest banks, firms, and investment funds increased their cash holdings by $3 trillion – roughly the amount by which central banks in reserve-currency countries expanded their balance sheets over the same period.
On our current complacent path, with a meager $2 billion of public funds spent annually worldwide on researching and developing green energy sources, the necessary breakthroughs will not happen in time.
For this to occur, public funds on research and development must be increased dramatically.
We call it the “Big Bond” – a strategy for leveraging foreign aid funds in international capital markets to generate financing for massive infrastructure investment.
First, the banking system, which dominates lending, typically funds long-term investments with short-term bank deposits, creating a maturity mismatch.
Many pension funds are underwater, because the returns required to meet their longer-term liabilities seem unattainable.
Meanwhile, capital is accumulating on high-net-worth balance sheets and in sovereign-wealth funds.
Faced with tight fiscal (and political) constraints, policymakers should abandon the flawed notion that investments with broad – and, to some extent, non-appropriable – public benefits must be financed entirely with public funds.
Three years ago, Fox wanted the "whole enchilada": a temporary workers accord, more Green Cards to allow Mexicans to work in the US, legalization of immigrants already in the US, development funds for Mexican communities that send immigrants to the US, and a bilateral approach to managing the problem.
At the Climate Summit that I convened last September at the UN in New York, financial institutions, commercial and national banks, insurance companies, and pension funds vowed to mobilize more than $200 billion by the end of this year for action to address climate change.
The Lost Lesson of the Financial CrisisLONDON – Ten years ago this month, the French bank BNP Paribas decided to limit investors’ access to the money they had deposited in three funds.
When BNP Paribas froze $2.2 billion worth of funds on August 9, 2007, it should have been obvious that more financial stress would be forthcoming.
Market-based financial intermediaries, such as hedge funds, may be relatively unregulated, but they are also responsible for their own destiny.
Funds must be made available to help host and transit countries house, educate, and employ migrants in distress.
Later, higher world oil prices provided a further boost to the economy, generating funds for investment and expansion.
Profits generated provided funds for expansion.
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